Word: fea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tools Britain bought had originally cost the U.S. $166,000,000, but the deal was not quite the bargain for Britain that it seemed. To keep the bookkeeping record straight, FEA Boss Leo Crowley had thriftily included in his bill the cost of tools sunk in transit or later bombed out in Britain...
Head of the school is able Dr. Halford L. Hoskins. onetime dean (1933-44) of Tufts College's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Faculty members include such practicing experts as John Newbold Hazard. FEA authority on Russia, John S. Dickey, director of the State Department's Office of Public Affairs, Herbert Feis, economic consultant to the War Department. They do most of their teaching in seminars. Maximum enrollment has been tentatively set at 130. Students may attend from a few months to two years. At present they range in age from 20 to 46 (average...
China's plan was born late in 1943, when Lauchlin Currie, then acting deputy administrator of the Foreign Economic Administration, sat down to discuss it with FEA's electric, little, British-born chief engineer, Alex Taub. Taub had just completed a ten-year industrialization plan for Brazil. Said Currie: "China's alive. Why not do one for China...
Canvass of Industry. Taub and his FEA engineers went to work, made their first stop in the front office of U.S. industry. To one leading company in each of 52 basic industries, they posed this question: how much would it cost to put an economically feasible unit of your industry in China, capable of affecting China's economy nationally...
Such companies as Baldwin Locomotive Works, Giddings & Lewis Machine Tool Co., H. K. Ferguson Co. and American Cyanamid supplied FEA with detailed specifications...